"No signal" message. (1 Viewer)

[RobGP]

Area: Media Portal Program
MP Version: 2.0 RC2 CVS 26 Feb 2006 01:01
Skin: mce
Windows Version: XP SP2
CPU Type: P4 3.4Ghz
Memory: 3Gb - DDR2
Motherboard Chipset: Abit AA8 Duramax - Intel 9xx chipset
Video Card: Radeon X800XT PCI-E
Video Card Driver: Catalyst 8.221.0.0
Video Card Resolution: 1600x1200
Video Render Type: VMR9
Video Codec Type & Version: Mpeg2Dec Filter
Audio Codec Type & Version: MPEG/AC3/DTS/LPCM Audio Decoder
TV Card: Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T USVB2 (Model 93000)
TV Card Type: DVB
TV Card Driver: Nova-T 2.4
Optional Log: none
Optional References: none


I'm starting to get "No signal" a lot... and on channels I know are fine (i.e work in TV card software with "very good" signal quality). Below is a list of things I have noticed:

+ The problem often comes up when rewinding/fast forwarding live tv and will sometimes fix itself when changed to play back at the regular rate.

+ Disabling time shifting seems to help the problem (not completley)

+ Its as if the new "no signal" box is too eager to pop up and isn't givng the card chance to get a signal lock before MP just gives up.

+ Certain channels seem worse than others - but hecking the frequencies against my tv card software shows they are the same.

+ When changing away from a "no signal" channel, just before it attempts to display the new channel it will show the "no signal" channel live for 1-2 seconds every time.

+ Quite often MP hangs when a channel goes to "No signal"

+ This is major to the point where the system is unusable (i.e you cant just sit back and watch TV, you need access to the keyboard to restart MP constantly).

 

[RobGP]

Check out this log I just generated:

26/02/2006 10:31:54 Channel change:five
26/02/2006 10:31:54 GUITVHome.ViewChannel(): View channel=five ts:True
26/02/2006 10:31:55 Recorder:StartTimeshift tv five
26/02/2006 10:31:55 Recorder:  Found card:Hauppage Nova-T USB2 (Soho)
26/02/2006 10:31:55 Command:Stop tv card:0
26/02/2006 10:31:55 Recorder: tv channel changed:five
26/02/2006 10:31:55 teletext: clear teletext cache
26/02/2006 10:31:55 TVCapture: change channel to :five
26/02/2006 10:31:55 DVBGraph: ShouldRebuildGraph(five)  current ac3:False new channel ac3:False
26/02/2006 10:31:55 DVBGraph:TuneChannel() tune to channel:23
26/02/2006 10:31:55 DVBGraph:  tuning details: frequency:778167 KHz ONID:9018 TSID:12290 SID:12866 provider:five
26/02/2006 10:31:55 DVBGraphBDA:SubmitTuneRequest() frequency:778167 KHz Bandwidth:8 ONID:9018 TSID:12290, SID:12866
26/02/2006 10:31:56 DVBGraphBDA: signal strength:10 signal quality:60 signal present:True locked:True
26/02/2006 10:31:56 DVBGraph:SetHardwarePidFiltering to:0,1,10,11,12,D3,D2,1781,1782,1783,101,
26/02/2006 10:31:56 DVBGraph:TuneChannel() done freq:778167 ONID:9018 TSID:12290 prog:12866 audio:1782 video:1781 pmt:101 ac3:FFFFFFFF txt:FFFFFFFF
26/02/2006 10:31:56 DVBGraph:set mpeg2demuxer video:0x1781 audio:0x1782 ac3:0xFFFFFFFF
26/02/2006 10:31:56 DVBDemuxer:five audio:1782 video:1781 teletext:FFFFFFFF pmt:101 subtitle:0 program:12866
26/02/2006 10:31:56 teletext: grab teletext for card:Hauppage Nova-T USB2 (Soho)
26/02/2006 10:31:56 Recorder: tv channel changed:five
26/02/2006 10:31:56 teletext: clear teletext cache
26/02/2006 10:31:56 Command:MediaPortal.TV.Recording.TimeShiftTvCommand time:1703.125 msec
26/02/2006 10:31:56 Recorder:  Card:Hauppage Nova-T USB2 (Soho) timeshift tv channel:five
26/02/2006 10:31:56 Recorder:  currently playing:D:\Current Documents\My Documents\My Recordings\card1\live.tv pos:D:\Current Documents\My Documents\My Recordings\card1\live.tv/3.0517578125E-05
26/02/2006 10:31:58 VMR9Helper: playing->repaint
26/02/2006 10:31:58 VMR9Helper: repaint->playing 1
26/02/2006 10:32:00 window:MediaPortal.GUI.TV.GUITVZAPOSD deinit
26/02/2006 10:32:00 texturemanager:CleanupThumbs()
26/02/2006 10:32:00 timeout->ZAP OSD:Off
26/02/2006 10:32:00 VMR9Helper: playing->repaint
26/02/2006 10:32:01 DVBGraph:Got PMT version:24
26/02/2006 10:32:01 DVBGraph: OnPMTIsChanged:database\pmt\pmt_five_9018_12290_12866_5.dat
26/02/2006 10:32:01 DVBGraph:SendPMT() set demux: video pid:1781 audio pid:1782 AC3 pid:FFFFFFFF audio1 pid:1782 audio2 pid:1783 audio3 pid:FFFFFFFF subtitle pid:1786 teletext pid:FFFFFFFF pcr pid:1781
26/02/2006 10:32:01 DVBDemuxer:five audio:1782 video:1781 teletext:FFFFFFFF pmt:101 subtitle:FFFFFFFF program:12866
26/02/2006 10:32:01 DVBGraph: grab epg for five
26/02/2006 10:32:01 window:MediaPortal.Dialogs.GUIDialogNotify init
26/02/2006 10:32:06 Notify Message:five, No signal detected!
26/02/2006 10:32:06 g_Player.Stop()

It clearly shows that channel "five" gets a signal lock, but at the end it displays the "no signal" message... wtf? works fine in WinTV2000

 

[Elf]

I second this one - at least as of CVS on Friday night (although I can't vouch for when it started to happen, only just upgraded to 2.0!)

 

[jfloris]

Avermedia UltraTV 1500 MCE no video signal error

In the latest CVS (26-02-06) my tuner card (Avermedia UltraTV 1500 MCE) is recognized as Avermedia M150(NTSC) however, it will not display TV and gives me a black screen. The error message is No Signal when opening TV in full screen. Autotune tunes the channels properly but does not display any video during the auto tuning process.

CVS dated 10-01-06 recognizes the card as Generic H/W encoding card. CVS dated 12-01-06 fails to recognize the card at all and there are no cards showing in the pull down list.
CVS dated 25-01-06 recognizes the card as Avermedia M150(NTSC) and does not provide any further options in the pull down list. No video signal error message.
I can not upgrade beyond CVS dated 10-01-06. Please help.

Thanks,
Jim